1500s Today in Labor History September 11, 1541: Indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, attacked Santiago, Chile in order to free eight indigenous chiefs that the Spanish were holding captive. Ines de Saurez defended the town. She decapitated one of the warriors herself, and had others decapitated by her soldiers, effectively ending the attack. 1800s Today in […]

1890s Today in Labor History September 10, 1897: A sheriff and deputies killed 19 striking miners and wounded 40 others in Lattimer mine, near Hazelton, Pennsylvania during a peaceful mining protest. Many of those killed were originally brought in as strikebreakers, but then later organized and joined the strike. The miners were mostly Polish, Lithuanian,

Today in Labor History September 9, 1739: Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina. 25 colonists and up to 50 African slaves died in the revolt. A literate Congolese former soldier named Cato led the revolt. Today in Labor History September 9, 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian

Today in Labor History September 8, 1901: Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist educator, opened the libertarian Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain. It was one of the first schools in Spain to coeducate boys and girls. The curriculum was fully secular and purged of all religious influences. And it sought to abolish all forms of authority. Modern Schools